Compiling bits of digital data gleaned from the communication habits of millions of New Yorkers may seem like some covert national security exercise. It’s not … at least not in this case. Using several months worth of anonymous, aggregated long distance telephone and internet data flowing between the five boroughs and other international centers, MIT researchers created something intrinsically attractive (and actually kind of useful). The NYTE (New York Talk Exchange) project was recently featured as part of the Design and Elastic Mind exhibition at the MoMA.